Payroll Manager | £55k | Hybrid | 25 days A/L

Are you an experienced Payroll Manager seeking a new Permanent opportunity? Would you like to receive Amazing benefits? If so, we have the most perfect position for you.

Please find all the details below. Alternatively, if you'd like to have a confidential call about this role, please contact Nicola on (phone number removed).

Job title: Payroll Manager

Location: Faversham, Kent

Salary: £50,000 - £55,000

Our client offers excellent benefits:

• Hybrid working, with 2 days flexible working and 3 days in the office, after training is completed
• 25 days annual leave
• Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm with 1/2 hr for lunch
• Free parking
• Simply Health and Life Assurance cover

What makes this role exciting?

• The opportunity to modernise and shape a key function
• The chance to simplify complexity and create lasting impact
• Exposure to modern, integrated systems
• A supportive environment focused on improvement and investment in people

Your key responsibilities as the new Payroll Manager would be:

• Lead the end-to-end payroll function within a complex environment, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely delivery across multiple payrolls
• Take ownership of payroll transformation activity, reviewing and redesigning existing processes, controls, and ways of working
• Support the consolidation and simplification of four existing payroll runs, working towards a more efficient payroll structure
• Act as a key driver of change, helping to shift a long-established team towards new systems, processes, and behaviours
• Provide hands-on expertise in payroll systems, ensuring optimal use of system capability
• Work closely with HR colleagues to ensure effective integration between payroll and the HR system
• Identify and address legacy payroll rules, working with stakeholders to standardise and modernise where appropriate
• Lead, develop, and upskill payroll team members, building confidence in system-led payroll processing
• Ensure compliance with statutory requirements, internal controls, and audit standards
• Provide insight, reporting, and recommendations to support strategic decision-making
• Oversee the companies four pension schemes including ensuring compliance with auto enrolment requirements
• Support with staff cost budgets and staff costings for new projects

You'll be the ideal candidate for this role if you have:

• Proven experience in a Payroll Manager or senior payroll leadership role within a complex organisation
• CIPP qualification (Level 5 preferred) or equivalent

• Experience managing multiple payroll cycles and navigating operational complexity
• Demonstrable track record of delivering payroll transformation, process improvement, or change initiatives
• Experience leading, developing, and upskilling payroll teams
• Hands-on experience with payroll systems
• Experience working with integrated HR/payroll systems
• Strong stakeholder management experience, including working with Finance, HR, and senior leadership
• Up-to-date knowledge of UK payroll legislation, statutory requirements, and compliance obligations

• Understanding of payroll controls, audit requirements, and risk management
• Knowledge of payroll best practice, including process standardisation and automation
• Awareness of system integrations between payroll and HR platforms
• Understanding of the challenges associated with legacy payroll rules and how to modernise them

Next steps:

If you're ready to take on this exciting new role, we'd love to hear from you! Apply now, our client can interview immediately.

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We look forward to your application.

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